"They often give differing perspectives on the same event, creating almost a kind of cubist painting — seeing the same thing from different angles".
When Mr. Lévi-Strauss studied the Bororo of central Brazil in the 1930's, he was fascinated by the sheer excess of their body painting, seeing it as the remnant of a vast vanished civilization.
In "The Last Drawing of Canaletto," Cameron McNall of the University of California at Los Angeles brings to three-dimensional life a final sketch by the artist and takes the audience on a virtual ride through the painting, seeing the figures from various angles inside the frame.
Rosetta's technology allows researchers to take in the entire painting, seeing interactions and interplay between them that would otherwise remain invisible.
"I don't want anything to hurt him, nothing to bother him and rob him of the energy he needs for living -- for living as he likes, for painting, seeing, loving, eating, sleeping, being by himself, being with someone.
No online experience, no matter how far you can zoom in, will be the same as standing next to a painting, seeing its scale, viewing its texture from different angles, breathing its air.
